RESTAURANT

Hide

These White Walls was approached by Hedonism Wines to create a new concept and interior design for their flagship restaurant, HIDE in Mayfair - a joint venture with acclaimed chef, Ollie Dabbous.

These White Walls' feature private dining rooms, Hide & Seek, at HIDE

Detail from our plain tree plaster mural at HIDE Above

Hide—where the uncanny of the everyday is continually revealed.

CONCEPT

Our studio created an interior scheme based on the theme of ‘Dwelling’. The design concept takes traditional emblems of domesticity, and playfully reimagines them. The three floors—Above,Ground and Below—were each given their own distinct narrative.

Taking ‘HIDE-as-Hidden’ as a curatorial cue, we commissioned three female artists to create site specific installations, each designed to challenge our perceptions of the ordinary.

EXPLORE

ABOVE

A HIDE WITHOUT WALLS

The restaurant Above, with its expansive glassiness, is a Hide without walls. A frosty glazing unwinds from the fairytale stair, enshrouding Ollie’s feature kitchen, where guests can catch a glimpse of the chefs at work. Light finishes and fine detailing give Above an air of delicacy and elegance.

Nestled at the core of the spiral staircase, our rotating 'Rummager' cabinet quietly turns—its movement a manifestation of the wild spiralling momentum of the stair.

We boldly stained the staircase's treads in gradient shades—each tread transforming from dark fumed oak Below, to the pale oiled oak of Above. This transition refers to the distillation process below, where activated oak slowly darkens clear liquor into amber fluid. In the same manner, the guest's experience is imbued with HIDE's heady alchemy whilst they dwell within its interior.

BELOW

THE HIDE BENEATH HEDONISM

A trap door is set into the stone floor at Hide’s nearby sister-establishment, Hedonism Wines. Standing over it, we wondered what might lie beneath this unassuming hatch...The basement bar, Below is our answer.

Descending the stair behind the coppered back bar to the basement Below

BELOW

A walk down the wayward stair takes our guests behind the amber-glowing back bar, to the unravelled Distillery. The bar’s looped footprint represents a rewinding of the distillation process, from bottle back to source.

Guests can sip a house cocktail served up on a burr oak bar—its cracks and wells filled with pools of golden resin.

These White Walls created the concept of an unravelled potstill for the bar Below; a detail from our Distillery bar

ARTISTS

HIDE AS HIDDEN

Our studio works with artists to shape the identity of interior spaces. For HIDE, we commissioned three artists to reveal something extraordinary within the interior.

These White Walls gathered treasured objects from the client to be cast within the mural, hidden amongst the weeds

RACHEL DEIN

We gathered treasured trinkets from the client's friends and family for Rachel to cast amidst the foliage. These momentos—subtly set in time and hidden in plain sight—form the backdrop to our disappearing dining room, known to guests as the HIDE & SEEK tables.

Meaningful trinkets add layers of meaning to our mural for Above at HIDE

Layers of preserved bracket funghi create a surprise feature in the gents at HIDE Ground

THE CLOROFILAS

Jeanette is an artist who explores the aesthetic potential of vegetation to form living art installations. Her sculptural murals captivate the viewer.

We wished to reveal something unexpected beyond the looking glass for our Ladies and Gents, so Jeanette covered the walls with compositions of funghi and lichen. We set them behind disappearing mirrors to create playful revelations—hidden encounters for the guests at Ground.

Detail from These White Walls commissioned artwork by artist Su Blackwell for The Reading Room at HIDE

SU BLACKWELL

Su is an artist working within the realm of paper; the pages of old storybooks are her medium. By cutting into and reconfiguring folkloric texts she reimagines fairytales in sculptural form.

These White Walls commissioned Su to create an Arch of Escaping Stories where comestible characters might be seen to escape the culinary collection. The installation celebrates the potential of a well-loved library to excite the imagination.

Su's assemblages emerge from storybooks and escape up the chimney to Above